One of the important compendiums of Jewish mystical lore, a composition known to scholars as 3 Enoch or the Book of the Heavenly Palaces (Sefer Hekhalot) offers a striking re-interpretation of the canonical account of Moses’ reception of Torah. In this text the supreme angel Metatron, also associated in Sefer Hekhalot with the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch, is depicted as the one who rev...

A twistor construction of the hierarchy associated with the hyper-Kähler equations on a metric (the anti-self-dual Einstein vacuum equations, ASDVE, in four dimensions) is given. The recursion operator R is constructed and used to build an infinite-dimensional symmetry algebra and in particular higher flows for the hyper-Kähler equations. It is shown that R acts on the twistor data by multiplic...

An attempt is made of giving a self-contained introduction to holomorphic ideas in general relativity, following work over the last thirty years by several authors. The main topics are complex manifolds, two-component spinor calculus, conformal gravity, α-planes in Minkowski space-time, α-surfaces and twistor geometry, anti-self-dual space-times and Penrose transform, spin-3/2 potentials, heave...

Aristotle, as well some other ancient scholars, ascribe to Thales of Miletus the conception Earth floating on water. Current researchers tend view this ascription well-founded, but there are reasons suppose that it does not reflect Thales’s authentic views. To wit, already in antiquity were doubts regarding existence treatise. Reports which describe his views shape and substance heavenly bodies...

Contextualized by the use of icons during current war in Ukraine, paper finds a point orientation veneration icon Our Lady Smolensk Russian army on eve Battle ofBorodino, as portrayed Tolstoy. Is this turning into battle-­flag? The historic conflicts parallels relics means making present power saint. Peter Brown shows that cult was closely associated with sacralization burial site and dead body...

s: NI2.00003 Excitation of chirping whistler waves in a laboratory plasma Session Session NI2: Waves and Instabilities 9:30 AM–12:30 PM, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 Room: Chatham Ballroom C

So that the ordinary Jew have an informed view of creation as a step toward true conviction about God, Maimonides devotes chapter three of "Hillscot yesode hattoriih" of the Mifoe Torah to an exposition of medieval astrophysics. The system he expounds has several traits that are strange to modern ears: first, it is geocentric; second, the heavenly bodies do not move by themselves in space but a...